The Unspoken, by Douglas Reid Skinner (used)

The Unspoken is Douglas Reid Skinner's third collection of poems. Ernest Perreira, in a review of Reassembling World (Mantis Poets, David Philip, 1981) in Unisa English Studies, commented on "the deliberate, antithetical style and archetypal symbolism" of many of the poems in that book. In a commentary in UPSTREAM on The House in Pella District (David Philip, 1985), Gareth Cornwell noted that many of the "poems evince a yearning for ... [the] redeeming wholeness ... absent from human consciousness and experience." They also, he goes on to say, "exhibit a radical scepticism... about the agency of reason to effect the desired atonement... [and] ... about the real, independent existence of such a plenitude, outside of the myths in terms of which we construct and project it. 

The Unspoken, building on these and other aspects of the earlier works, focuses on the relationships between public and private life in politics, childhood, war, families, language, memory, history and death. 

condition: good (yellowed cover and pages)